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Show ~3 ' TRAVELS TflROVGli LOWER CANADA= " 110 military to k cp the pco11c in awe. I ohbcri cs arc very rare. AU " thefc are re:tl advantages; but great as they arc, they do not weigh " with me fo much a the Gngle coniidcration fidl: mention d." Any peri(m that has travelled generally through the United States mu!l: acknowledge, that Mr. Cooper has here fpokcn with great partiality; for as to the morality and good order that prevails among!l: the people, he has applied to all of them what only holds true with rcfpeCl: to thofe who live in the moil improved parts of the country. lie is extremely inaccurate alfo, in reprcfcnting the people of the {btes as free from all animo.fities about political mcafures; on the contrary, there is no country on the face of the globe, perhaps. where party fpirit runs higher, where politi al fubjeCl:s are more frequently the topic of converfation amongft all claiTcs, and where fuch fubjcCts arc more frcq ucntl y the caufc of rancorous dif pu tations and lafiing di ff .·cnccs 01mongil: the people. I have repeatedly b en in towns wh.;re one half of the inhabitant· would fcarccly deibn to fpcak to the othct half, on >account of the difference of their political opinions; and it is frarcely pofl1blc, in any part of the country, to remain for a [i·w hom., in a mi. cd company of men, without witncHing fome acrin onious difpu te from the fame canfe. Let u , however, compare the inducements which he holds out to people in EnglanLl to leave that country for America, that is, for the United States, with the inducements there would be to fettle in anada, under the prcmifed fnppo.fition, that the land was there granted in an unexcep-tionable manner. From the land being plentiful in Canada, and confcquent y at a very low price, but likely to increafe in value, whiHl: in the States, on the contrary, it has rifen to an exorbitant value, beyond which it is not likely to rife for fome time to come, there can be no doubt but that a man of moderate property could provide for his family with much more eafe in Canada than in the United States, as far as land were his objeCt. In Canada, alfo, there is a much greater opening for young men acquainted with any bufincfs or profeffion that can be carried on in Amenca, • ADVANTAGES IN CANADA; ri a, th, an there is in the Uni_t ed St:.ttes · The cxpcncc of 1r ett i'm g ·11 1 Canad t would b far lcfs alio than in any one of the fl:ates; for in the former country the ncceflarics and convenicncics of life are remarkably cbl'.lp, whiln-, on the contrary, .in the other they are far dearer than . E 1 i lll • ng, ai t ; a man therefore would certainly have no greater anxiet about the future fucccfs of a 6mily in Canada than in the United State: and tlw abfcnce of th i · anxiety, accordinn- to Mr Coope · t' ' . . b • r, tS tJe great mduCt'lllmt to flttll! m the States, which 'Weigl•s 'With him more ti.Jan all oti.Jer CDI!}ideratiom j >llt togeti;cr. The taxes of Lower Canada have already been enumerated; they arc of acknowledged neceffity, and much lower in amount and number than thofc paid in the States. There arc no animofitics in Camda abont religion, and people of all perfuafions arc on a perfl:Ct cqnality with each other, except, indeed, it be the protefiant difii.:ntcrs, who may happen to live on land that were fubjcfr to tithes under the French government; they have to pay tithes to tl~e Engli!h epifcopalian clergy; but there is not a diJTenter living on t1the lands, perhaps, in the whole province. The lands granted fince the conquefl: are not liable to tithes. The Engli01 cpifcopalian clergy are provided for by the crown ont of the wafte lands, and all difienters have limply to pay their own clergy. There are no game laws in Canada, nor any excif~.: bws whatfocver. As for the obft rvation made by Mr. Cooper in rc(pcCl: to the military, it is almoil: too futile to dcferve notice. If a ( ldier, however, be an obj Cl: of terror, the timid man will not find himfclf at eafe in the United Stares any more than in England, as he will mee t with folJicrs in New York, on Governor's Hland, at Miffiin Fort 11ear Phibdclt1hia, at the forts on the North River, at Niagara, at Detroit, an,l at Ofwcg , &c. n the lakes, and all through the wdlcrn COLLntry, at the different pofis which were efrabli!J1ecl by General Wayne. In every other ref peel, what Mr. Coopet ha f1id of the U nitcd States hold good with regard to :mada; nay more, it m {l ccrt.1inly in addition be allowed by every unprejudiced perfon that Ius b ·en in both countries, that morality and good order are much mor~ conf[1icuou' § amongil: ( f' |
